Medical Director, Clinical Planning, BC Cancer Redevelopment

BC Cancer - Provincial (Flexible across BC Cancer Centres) 

Regular, Part-Time (0.40 FTE) (approximately 2 days per week) 

 

In accordance with the established vision and values of BC Cancer and the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), the Medical Director, Clinical Planning, BC Cancer Redevelopment provides strategic medical leadership to support high quality, patient and family centred cancer care, while advancing major capital redevelopment priorities across the province.

Reporting jointly to the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer (or designate), the Medical Director works in dyad partnership with the Executive Director, Clinical Operations and Capital Development to lead clinical planning efforts for major redevelopment projects across BC Cancer, including sites in Kamloops, Surrey, Burnaby, and Nanaimo. 

This role provides provincial medical leadership to ensure redevelopment initiatives are clinically informed, operationally feasible, and aligned with BC Cancer’s strategic direction, care models, and provincial service delivery frameworks.

The position is a 0.4 FTE (approximately 2 days per week) and requires flexibility in work hours to meet the evolving needs of complex, multi site redevelopment initiatives.

 

Why work with BC Cancer Redevelopment

BC Cancer Redevelopment is advancing major capital projects that will expand and modernize cancer care across the province. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how services are designed, integrated, and operationalized across multiple sites, while partnering closely with clinical, operational, and health authority leaders to support safe, effective patient care at go live and beyond.

 

What you’ll do

Key accountabilities

Strategic and operational leadership

• Provide medical leadership representing the perspective of Medical Staff in major BC Cancer redevelopment projects.
• Partner with executive and operational leaders to align redevelopment initiatives with BC Cancer’s strategic and operational priorities.
• Engage with regional health authority partners to support planning and delivery of new cancer centres and expanded services.
• Contribute to executive level planning, risk identification, and mitigation strategies for redevelopment initiatives.

Clinical planning and program design

• Lead and support clinical planning processes for redevelopment projects across multiple sites.
• Participate in the design and review of proposed services, ensuring alignment with BC Cancer care models, provincial standards, and projected service volumes.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational teams, including physicians, senior leaders, and interdisciplinary staff, to identify program and service requirements, integrate clinical service delivery models, and establish clinical standards and operational guidelines.
• Lead service redesign and best practice initiatives to improve integration, quality, and cost effectiveness while maintaining patient safety.
• Oversee clinical program planning throughout project planning and construction phases.
• Work with the BC Cancer Executive Team to ensure project plans are developed, implemented, and monitored, including reporting on risks and progress.
  
  
  

Human resource and physician workforce planning

• Lead, in partnership with BC Cancer Executive, the development of physician human resource models to support redevelopment initiatives.
• Ensure workforce planning supports sustainable, high quality care delivery across sites.
• Promote cross site collaboration and integration of clinical resources across BC Cancer centres and provincial networks.
• Work with existing medical leadership teams to design effective leadership structures for new and redeveloped sites.
  
  
  

Medical staff engagement and leadership

• Engage physicians, academic leaders, and research partners in clinical planning and redevelopment processes.
  Facilitate meaningful opportunities for Medical Staff input into clinical service delivery planning, performance specifications, and procurement, design, and construction phases.
  Provide leadership through coaching, mentorship, and development of physician leaders.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, engagement, and shared accountability.

 

System integration and strategic alignment

• Align clinical planning approaches with approved business plans and BC Cancer’s strategic priorities.
• Ensure integration of clinical planning with equipment planning, Clinical and Systems Transformation (CST), and Information Management and Information Technology (IM/IT).
• Partner with project and clinical leaders to support successful implementation of redevelopment initiatives.
  
  
  
  

Operational readiness

• Collaborate with redevelopment teams, BC Cancer Executive, and site leadership to ensure new and redeveloped facilities are operationally ready.
  Support the development of plans to ensure safe, effective, and timely patient care delivery at go live.
• Identify and address risks related to clinical operations, staffing, and service delivery readiness.

 

Partnerships and stakeholder engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with health authority partners, provincial stakeholders, and clinical and operational leaders across BC Cancer.
• Represent BC Cancer in planning discussions related to redevelopment and system integration.

Communication and change leadership

• Ensure effective engagement with clinical user groups and stakeholders to obtain input and consensus on planning decisions.
• Lead and support the development of detailed operational and clinical service plans.
• Communicate complex planning concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Support change management efforts associated with redevelopment and service transformation.

Medical staff governance

• Support medical governance processes in alignment with PHSA and BC Cancer Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules, and Policies.

Leadership on call

• Participate in Medical Leadership On Call structures as required.

Other duties

• Perform other related leadership responsibilities as assigned in support of BC Cancer’s redevelopment and strategic priorities.

 

What you bring

Qualifications

Education and credentials

• Eligible for appointment to the Medical Staff of BC Cancer.
• Current licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.
• A Master’s degree in Health Administration, Business Administration, Public Health, or related field is an asset.

Experience

• Significant clinical practice experience as a physician.
• Demonstrated senior medical leadership experience in complex healthcare environments.
• Experience in clinical planning, capital projects, system redesign, and large scale transformation initiatives is strongly preferred.

Leadership competencies

Personal leadership

• Demonstrates integrity, professionalism, and accountability.
• Brings a commitment to cultural humility, equity, and continuous learning.

People and team leadership

• Builds strong, collaborative relationships across disciplines and organizations.
• Effectively engages and influences physicians and senior leaders.
• Demonstrates experience in mentoring and developing physician leaders.

Results orientation

• Drives strategic initiatives forward in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrates accountability for achieving outcomes aligned with organizational priorities.

Systems thinking and change leadership

• Applies systems thinking to large scale healthcare transformation.
• Leads and supports change across multiple sites and stakeholders.
• Champions innovation and continuous improvement.

Partnership and collaboration

• Navigates complex stakeholder environments with diplomacy and influence.
• Builds coalitions to achieve shared provincial goals.

Skills and abilities

• Strong strategic, analytical, and planning capabilities.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to lead in complex, multi site, and matrixed environments.
• Skilled in change management, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolution.
• Deep understanding of healthcare systems, clinical operations, and physician workforce planning.

What we bring

 

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

• Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
• Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
• Salaried Physicians enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
• Salaried Physicians receive annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
• Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

 

To submit your CV and cover letter, in confidence, please send applications to medicalstaffrecruitment@phsa.ca.

 

For more information about this rewarding opportunity, contact Jennifer Iskierski, at jennifer.iskierski@phsa.ca

 

 Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.

 

 

What we do

 

BC Cancer provides comprehensive cancer control for the people of British Columbia. BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

 

PHSA plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Create equity – Be courageous.

 

Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services

 

PHSA and BC Cancer are committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently excluded groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.

 

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at indigenous.employment@phsa.ca.

 

Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.